In October of 2000, the team at Scaled wanted to prove out the max capabilities of Proteus, and during two flights on October 25th and 27th proceeded to set three World Records in the FAI Class C1-e, Group 2, Turbojet category – Altitude (63,245 ft), Altitude in Horizontal Flight (62,385 ft), and Altitude with a 1,000kg payload (55,994 ft) – none of which have been broken yet! Mike Melvill and Bob Waldmiller crewed the record breaking flights, wearing pressure suits loaned to Scaled from NASA Dryden.

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